Geminus
Legal name: Southlaketri-city Management Corporatio Dba Geminus Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 351859562
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Merrillville, IN, US
- Phone
- 219.757.1800
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,299,154
- Expenses
- $49,906,980
- Assets
- $50,080,561
- Liabilities
- $6,274,216
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SONIA MAGALLON (PRESIDENT/COO)
Highest reported compensation
- SHERMAN HAYES (CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER): $214,375 total reported compensation
- SONIA MAGALLON (PRESIDENT/COO): $209,856 total reported compensation
- KAREN CARRADINE (VP HEAD START): $209,651 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Geminus addresses the emerging needs of area families. Our main goal is to build resiliency across generations while providing comprehensive care that supports our clients’ well-being.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs: administrative services: geminus serves as a cost effective provider of management and administrative services to affiliates and other not-for-profit organizations.prevention services: the prevention services aim to reduce alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other illicit drug use among lake county residents and throughout Indiana. The program also provides training and education in suicide awareness and prevention and truancy reductionin local schools. Geminus works to accomplish this mission through education and training of youths and adults as well as through funding of youth organizations and community agencies that share the geminus vision.the daily bread program: supports providers of nutritious meals and snacks served to eligible children who are enrolled for care at participating child care centers including head start.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 86% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 13 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $47M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $214K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.5M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 13 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.